Emergency responders put out a fatal mobile home fire in Steens Saturday, finding one woman deceased inside and opening an investigation into the incident.
A neighbor called 911 Saturday afternoon after spotting the mobile home at 136 Hayden Lane ablaze, Lowndes County Sheriff Eddie Hawkins told The Dispatch. Lowndes County firefighters and police arrived on the scene to find the house fully engulfed. A press release sent out Nov. 3 at 9 a.m. said the cause of the fire has not yet been identified.
One 59-year-old woman was found inside, already deceased. She was identified later by the county coroner as Kimberly Kohler, a Columbus resident. No cause of death has been declared yet, with the remains forwarded to the state medical examiner’s office.
Kohler’s son told the county coroner’s office that she had been home alone when he left the property earlier that day. Detectives are looking into the fire as a death investigation with suspicious circumstances. Hawkins told The Dispatch there was a reason for that, but declined to say exactly why.
“Yes (there is a reason), but I’m not going to get into it right now,” he said. “I do not know (when that reason might be given.)”
Hawkins confirmed that nobody else had been injured in the fire.
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